When conservatives feel the need to be hateful and bigoted at 3AM, Laura Ingraham is there for them. In a recent broadcast Ingraham was discussing the case of Sgt. Tahmooressi, jailed in Mexico on gun charges for nearly 8 months.
“Obama should have gotten him out,” says Ingraham. As someone with a JD in law you’d think she’d be more respectful of the due process he had received in a foreign country. As a conservative, however, she is obliged to be outraged, blame the President, declare Americans superior to all others and accept calls from America’s most ignorant rubes.
The man who calls in, after gushing over Ingraham a bit, calls for a boycott of an entire country:
I’m not one that…generally endorses boycotts, but this should be self-imposed boycott by every single American; why anybody would ever go to that disgusting country - I don’t care how beautiful Cancun is and all that.
Ingraham busts in and agrees, angered about people disappearing and a Marine languishing in prison.
I completely agree with you. I wouldn’t go on a lark to reward Mexico after this. And I wouldn’t reward Mexico period given the fact that they don’t enforce their own border, they should stop people from crossing from their country into ours illegally too.
An interesting perspective. Ingraham, like most ‘educated’ conservatives, dispels fact for fiction at the expense of reality once again. The US Border Patrol has estimated a drop of nearly 60% in illegal border crossings. The reasons noted are a media campaign to Central American countries informing them that their children won’t be allowed to stay here, coupled with the increased patrols of Mexican officials stopping people before they reach the border, according to NPR.
The US has spent nearly $2 billion since 2007 assisting Mexico in upgrading their legal system. What a shame it would be for us to be hypocrites and tell them they should toss it aside because an American broke their laws.
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Oh, so if he had been Mexican and broke a US law, then they would want him in prison, but it’s ok for US citizens to break laws. Hypocrisy on the right never ends, does it?
Do Mexicans who break our immigration laws go to jail? No, they don’t.
They do until they are deported.
If they get caught, they get deported. If they have illegal guns they go to jail and probably stay there. He entered Mexico illegally, but he also brought guns that were illegal. The entering Mexico would have been resolved by deporting him. The gun charges are why he went to jail. How hard is that to understand. Your comment doesn’t even make sense.
Mexico will get better when the Mexican people decide they’ve had enough of the corruption and lawlessness. As far the marine goes it looks to Mexican authorities that he was trying to sell guns unless they decide to believe his story that he accidentally crossed the border with a small arsenal and let him go.
But, the Mexican people are standing against corruption. The recent, massive protests in Mexico City in solidarity with the families of the 43 students who lost their lives to state-sanctioned, gang violence is a perfect example. There are even smaller towns and villages, where citizens — in some cases: mostly women — have taken back their towns and neighborhoods from the police. As you well know, as in the United States, the police continues to be a tremendous problem in blocking progress and peace in that country.
So, they are fighting back with the tools they have, but it just does not get televised at any substantive level in the United States.
HAH! Even protests against the pro-military elite in this country don’t get televised at any substantive level.